Originally Posted by
wags3539
For the 4 hour min day if you get used, if you go above 4 hours of flying does it go above your guarantee, or do they just lump it all together like they do here. That's my biggest problem with reserve, your time means absolutely nothing, they figure if they don't use you, even though you've been on call for 15 hours, or 12 in your case, that there should be no value to that day outside of the 75 hour guarantee.
Which, as in your case, staffing has been so low here that it hasn't been an issue lately as we're working basically every day.
I'm not sure what your issue here is. I'm sure AWAC, like pretty much every other place counts every hour flown towards your guarantee. So I guess another way to look at it is if you get used less than 75 hours, then the company was paying you to do nothing (or paying you more per hour that you did fly). A lot of guys whine about being phone liable and within 2 hours of the airport all day and I get that, it does clip your wings a bit. But in this modern age of cell phones you can, for the most part, still enjoy your normal daily life. Go to a movie, the mall, the gym, a park, the lake, float in the pool, work in the yard, whatever. Hell, keep your bag in your car and you can pretty much go anywhere and do anything and still make it to the airport in 2 hours. You don't have to sit and stare at your house phone all day long.